2 . Directions: Write an English composition in about 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
“It’s more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.”
对这个观点，你是同意还是不同意？请结合实际，写一篇短文阐述你的看法。
内容可包括：
•你在这个问题上的立场；
•你选择这个立场的原因；
•通过具体事例或实际生活经历分析或证明你的观点。

3 . I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina.

The cabin smelt very strongly of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns(临时床铺), on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimney was raised outside, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake kettle; and over it great buckhorns held my father’s rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bear’s meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father’s best hunting shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several articles of woman’s clothing. These once belonged to my mother. Among them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, which I always wondered. The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters he would give me no answers.

My father was—how shall I say what he was? To this day I can only surmise many things of him. He was a Scotchman born, and I know now that he had a slight Scotch accent. At the time of which I write, my early childhood, he was a frontiersman and hunter. I can see him now, with his hunting shirt and leggins (绑腿) and moccasins（莫卡辛鞋）; his powder horn, engraved with wondrous scenes; his bullet pouch and tomahawk and hunting knife. He was a tall, lean man with a strange, sad face. And he talked little except when he drank too many “horns,” as they were called in that country. These little bad behaviors of my father’s were a permanent source of wonder to me—and, I must say, of delight. They occurred only when a passing traveler who hit his fancy chanced that way, or, what was almost as rare, a neighbor. Many a winter night I have lain awake under the skins, listening to a flow of language that held me spellbound, though I understood scarce a word of it.

“Virtuous(有德行的) and vicious(罪恶的) every man must be,

Few in the extreme, but all in a degree.”

The chance neighbor or traveler was no less struck with wonder. And many the time have I heard the query, at the Cross-Roads and elsewhere, “Whar Alec Trimble got his larnin’?”

1. The mention of the dress in the second paragraph is most likely meant to _____.

A．show the similarity between its owner and other members of the community

B．show how warm the climate was

C．show the dissimilarity between its owner and other members of the community

D．give us insight into the way most of the women of the region dressed

2. Judging by the sentences surrounding it, the underlined word “surmise” in the third paragraph most nearly means _____.

A．to form a negative opinion	B．to praise
C．to desire	D．to guess

3. Why did the narrator enjoy it when his father drank too many “horns,” or drafts of liquor?

A．The father spoke brilliantly at those times.

B．The boy was then allowed to do as he pleased.

C．These were the only times when the father was not abusive.

D．The boy was allowed to sample the drink himself.

4. What is the meaning of the lines of verse (诗句) quoted in the passage?

A．Men who pretend to be virtuous are actually vicious.

B．Moderate amounts of virtuousness and viciousness are present in all men.

C．Virtuous men cannot also be vicious.

D．Whether men are virtuous or vicious depends on the difficulty of their circumstances.